American schools gave kids laptops during the pandemic. Then they spied on them | Jessa Crispin
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According to one survey, 81% of teachers in America said their schools monitor devices. Students are not always aware

Students are not always aware.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    hey remember that scandal where a school district was recording high schoolers at their homes?

    School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home. After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly taken more than 66,000 images.
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    Without telling its students, the schools remotely accessed their school-issued laptops to secretly take pictures of students in their own homes, their chat logs, and records of the websites they visited. The school then transmitted the images to servers at the school, where school authorities reviewed them and shared the snapshots with others. In one widely published photo, the school had photographed Robbins in his bed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District​

    EDIT: hexbear is fucking up the link somehow, try this